Recall of China’s Dairy Products
Thursday, September 25, 2008 14:10
Shanghai and the Hainan are known as the first provinces on the Chinese mainland to recall these kind of goods other than milk products and milk. It’s said to be China’s worst food safety scandal in decades.
It has been discovered that the industrial chemical melamine, which is used to make plastics and glue, had been added to milk by collecting centers. The chemical, which is rich in nitrogen, is used by workers to diluted milk or milk that failed to meet standards to bamboozle tests for protein levels. The chemical of Melamine is not necessarily dangerous in small quantities, but it had been added in such huge amounts to baby formula that at least four infants have died of acute kidney problems and thousands more are sick with failure of kidney and other organ after being fed on a diet of milk powder from the Sanlu Group.
But further investigation just revealed the contamination extends far beyond the baby formula produced by Sanlu to a series of other dairy products. As the consequence to this scandal, top quality regulator of China has been fired and head of Sanlu has been arrested for selling melamine or tampering with milk with 18 other involved people.
France has established ban on all food containing Chinese milk products after this discovery. Italy has announced similar measures. The European Food Safety Authority are asked by the European Commission to issue a scientific opinion on whether processed items containing milk products from China pose a risk to human health, and the announcement is expected this week. Following the discovery of biscuits tainted with melamine, South Korea had also banned imports of Chinese-made food products containing powdered milk.
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